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How to spell chip

What it means: A thin slice of potato that is fried and eaten.

In a sentence: I ate a potato chip as a snack. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as cip or chippe.

Same family: chips, chipping, chipped, chipper. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Chip” comes from Middle English “chippen,” meaning to cut or break off small pieces. It is related to words for cutting and chopping, and originally referred to small bits split from wood or stone.

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